Zilupe is a town in Ludza Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia, on the Zilupe River at the border with Russia, with a population of 1,343 in 2020. Its railway station is the final stop on the Riga-Zilupe line, one of the longest passenger rail routes in Latvia; the town grew up around the station, originally named Rozenova, during construction of the Ventspils-Moscow railway line in 1900, and by 1908 it already had a police department, school and post office.
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Latitude56.385556 degrees north 1 Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Zilupe (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
population 1,163 (2026)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 56.385556, longitude 28.1225
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 120 m
P2046 (area)
area 4.69 sq km
P571 (inception)
inception 1900
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 1163 (2026)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Zilupe - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 453850
56.38616 28.12165 P PPLA2 LV 19 0681817 1897 124 Europe/Riga
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 124 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 56.25, 28.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 56.25, 28.25
56.25 28.25 Dfb
Zilupe (Wikipedia)
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Zilupe (Latgalian: Sīnuoja, from sīna - 'border'; German: Rosenau, Russian: Розеново) is a town in Ludza Municipality, in the Latgale region of Latvia, by the Zilupe River, on the border with Russia.
- In Group: Cities of Northern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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